LRTPublicityLouise Rhind-Tutt

Latest Press Releases

Wildlife In Pictures

Craig Hayman

Author Craig Hayman had the rare opportunity of living and working in some of Africa’s most spectacular wilderness areas for several years.

During his time as a wildlife photographic safari guide, he was able to capture many dramatic and intimate moments in photographs, including stunning images of elephants, lions, leopards, crocodiles and many other inspiring creatures.

Craig is passionate not only about photography but also ecotourism and the preservation of the fascinating creatures he’s been able to capture through his lens over the years.

Wildlife in Pictures reveals, through images and stories, a behind-the-scenes snapshot of the remarkable life of a conservationist and safari guide.

Photographer and author Craig Hayman grew up in South Africa, raised in a family that revered the natural world. After completing postgraduate studies in architecture at the University of Cape Town, he returned to the soil to train as a wildlife photographic safari guide. After three years as a safari guide, Hayman began training new guides and exploring for ecotourism potential in Gabon, equatorial west Africa. Hayman has travelled extensively through 6 continents, and now lives in Sydney, Australia. He now photographs the landscapes and oceans of Australia, and continues to return to the wild places of Africa.

Rarely Seen - Photographs of the Extraordinary

Stephen Alvarez & Susan Tyler Hitchcock

Boasting a major cool factor, the latest entry in National Geographic’s iconic line of large-format photography books reveals some of the world’s most astounding phenomena—from the desert flower that only blooms once a year to a priceless Egyptian artifact buried for years in King Tut’s tomb this striking book will astonish and inspire.

In this dazzling book of visual wonders, National Geographic reveals a world very few will have the chance to see for themselves. Shot by some of the world’s finest photographers, Rarely Seen features striking images of places, events, natural phenomena, and manmade heirlooms seldom seen by human eyes. It’s all here: 30,000-year-old cave art sealed from the public; animals that are among the last of their species on Earth; volcanic lightning; giant crystals that have grown to more than 50 tons; the engraving inside Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch.

With an introduction by National Geographic photographer Stephen Alvarez, whose work has taken him from the Peruvian Andes to the deepest caves of Papua New Guinea, Rarely Seen captures once-in-a-lifetime moments, natural wonders, and little-seen objects from the far reaches of the globe.

STEPHEN ALVAREZ, who has captured some of the most rarely seen objects on earth, is a photojournalist who produces global stories about exploration, culture, religion, and the aftermath of conflict. He has been a National Geographic photographer since 1995. His pictures have won awards from Pictures of the Year International and Communication Arts and have been exhibited at Visa Pour l’Image International Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan, France.

SUSAN TYLER HITCHCOCK is a senior editor in the Books Division of the National Geographic Society, where she is responsible for science, health, and nature titles. She has written 16 books, from literary history to personal memoir. This is the third National Geographic photography collection to which she has contributed.

Everest - Mountain Without Mercy

Broughton Coburn & Conrad Anker

Timed to coincide with the release of the highly anticipated Universal film “Everest” starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley, this updated edition of National Geographic’s best-selling book recounts the terror and triumph of the 1996 season on Everest, made famous in Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air.

The May 1996 climbing season on Mount Everest will go down in infamy. Its story has been recounted in David Breashears’s gripping IMAX film, Jon Krakauer’s bestseller Into Thin Air, and this NG film companion book, now updated with an all-new foreword by world-famous climber Conrad Anker along with brilliant new panoramic photography.

Written in suspenseful detail, the book documents how a courageous photographic team, facing hazards of their own, became an essential part of a rescue effort that brought some — but not all — of their companions down from the mountain alive. Added to the classic main text are fascinating updates: brief portraits of those who lived through the tragedy; a time line of subsequent climbing events on Everest, up to 2014; and never-before-published detailed panoramics of Everest and the Himalaya.

The new feature film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Keira Knightley, and Robin Wright, presents the opportunity to refresh, update, and reintroduce one of National Geographic’s most successful titles.

Broughton Coburn is a writer, lecturer and college instructor who specializes in crafting narratives of the people and landscape of the Himalaya. Since 1996, he has authored a young adult photo-biography of Sir Edmund Hillary, Triumph on Everest; collaborated with Jamling Tenzing Norgay on his auto-biography, Touching My Father’s Soul: A Sherpa’s Journey to The Top of Everest; and written The Vast Unknown, which explores the first American ascent of Everest, in 1963, and its aftermath. Some of his lectures vividly recount the events and the context for the 1996 Everest film expedition.

Conrad Anker is a world-renowned mountaineer who has summitted Everest 3 times and climbed many of the other most challenging heights around the world. Best known for having discovered the body of early 20th-century adventurer George Mallory on Everest in 1999, Anker is captain of The North Face Athlete Team and continues to inspire with his climbing prowess and his thoughtful dedication to the people of the Himalaya. He is the author of The Lost Explorer, about finding Mallory, and the primary co-author of National Geographic’s The Call of Everest.

Sublime Nature

Cristina Mittermeier

This exquisite and inspiring book of landscape photography from National Geographic captures the beauty of nature in all its breathtaking variations.

Natural scenery, whether mountain peaks against a crystal blue sky or shimmering expanses of ocean or desert, the exquisite geometry of tide marks on a beach or the perfection of a moss-laden path, affects us deeply, by turns eliciting joy, peace, awe, and a state of grace.

Sublime Nature collects images that inspire these emotions, culled from the world’s leading photographers. Award-winning photojournalist and conservationist Cristina Mittermeier contextualises the sentiments captured in the photographs, offering readers a visceral connection to the natural universe.

Interspersed throughout the book are inspiring quotations from the world’s leading naturalists and environmentalists, including Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Rachel Carson, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau reminds us that “Nature is full of genius, full of divinity,” while his friend Emerson declares, “Lose yourself in nature and find peace.”.

Mittermeier’s introduction and poetic chapter essays capture the special bond between photographers and nature as their often singular companion when alone in the field, using patience and wiles to capture these indelible moments.

Poetic, inspiring, and filled with breathtaking images, Sublime Nature stunningly captures our special relationship with nature in all its abundant incarnations, and inspires us to reap its life-giving and wondrous gifts and to care about protecting its future.

Dawn to Dark Photographs

National Geographic

The world’s best landscape photography and photojournalism stunningly depicts the passage of a single day, from dawn’s first light to the closing moments of sunset.

Experience shimmering mornings and opaque nights through the eyes of our finest photographers in this gloriously uplifting volume – the latest entry in National Geographic’s best-selling annual photography collection. Daybreak whispers mauve over a long ocean horizon. The morning sun twinkles in a drop of dew. The broad heat of midday radiates over a beach strewn with sweat-baked sunbathers. A slender crescent moon caresses a gnarled tree standing alone on the heath.

Full of one-of-a-kind photographs, this breathtaking collection gives readers a front-row seat to the world’s wonders, from its most imposing cityscapes to its most pristine landscapes. Selected from the portfolios of the most celebrated photographers, the images in this book are strikingly arranged to depict the beauty and majesty of light in all its variations. Short legends accompany every photograph to explain the picture, the scene it conveys, or how the shot was captured, along with inspiring quotations from literature.

With the widest possible array of perspectives, close-ups, and details, these photos present a new experience of time and light. Large-format pages and a simple, striking design play up the photographs as they demand. Chapters dedicated to each phase of the day show distinctly different yet harmonising visions, with unique insight and perspective from photographers, confirming that around the world and throughout all time, the passage of light from dawn to dusk, from morning to night and back again, connects us all.

Bear: Spirit of the Wild

Paul Nicklen

Following on the heels of his National Geographic blockbuster Polar Obsession, Paul Nicklen turns his keen photographic eye to North American bears. Stunning images shot by the renowned photojournalist are enriched with personal accounts by noted environmentalists, providing a glimpse into the endangered realm of North America’s bears: the grizzly, the polar bear, the black bear, and the rare all-white spirit, or Kermode, bear.

Gorgeously produced, inspirational in message, and educational, it will appeal to audiences of all ages. Paul Nicklen, wildlife photojournalist, showcases his stunning photography for National Geographic with this collection of North American bears. Evocative storytelling combines with Nicklen’s landmark photographs to reveal the truths and myths about these amazing creatures, and sheds light on their threatened ecosystems.

Years of photographing bears in their habitat have given Nicklen a special understanding of these majestic mammals: the polar bear, ranked most popular species on Earth; the grizzly, feared and misunderstood; and the black bear, as well as its precious white counterpart, the spirit bear. Nicklen believes that sharing knowledge and stories about bears will impact the way we think of them, and thus ensure their future.

Well-known environmentalists such as Wade Davis, Sylvia Earle, Werner Herzog, and Nicklen himself contribute essays to enhance the message of Nicklen’s photographs. Quotes from literary figures punctuate the pages, offering insight into the magnificence of these impressive mammals. An epilogue takes a global look at the future of bears.

Photographer PAUL NICKLEN has published numerous stories for National Geographic, and has received more than 20 international accolades, including awards from World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, Communication Arts, and BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

Dragonfly

David Chandler & Steve Cham

Supremely colourful, among the most voracious predators of the insect world and on the wing for more than 300 million years, dragonflies and damselflies capture the imagination in so many ways. Yet many aspects of their fascinating lives are little-known to humans. Dragonfly provides an insight into a hidden world through engaging text and stunning close-up photography.

This book combines insightful writing with rarely seen images of the life and behaviour of the world’s dragonfly and damselfly species. There are chapters on subjects such as hunting, courtship and the emergence of the nymphs and their subsequent transformation into adult dragonflies. These insects are further brought to life through the personal experiences of the author and photographers, and these are woven into the text.

David Chandler is based in Histon, Cambridge, and has worked for the RSPB and BirdLife International for nearly 20 years. He is now a freelance writer and naturalist and has authored a number of titles, including All About Bugs, All About Garden Wildlife and Barn Owl for New Holland.

The expert photographers include Steve Cham, who lives in Cambridge and has spent many years photographing dragonflies around the world. He specializes in aerial photography.

The Hidden Life of Wolves

Jim and Jamie Dutcher

Jim and Jamie Dutcher spent years of their lives gaining the trust of a small pack of wolves with whom they shared a 25-acre enclosed compound in Idaho. Now they have written a touching book, with foreword by Robert Redford, to share their stories, advance conservation efforts and dispel myths about these amazing animals: The Hidden Life of Wolves

The effort to save the wolves from extinction is one of the greatest conservation success stories. However, you would never know that these animals were recently delisted from the endangered species list. They are one of the only animals to come off the list to be managed to a biological minimum. The Hidden Life of Wolves delves into one of the biggest issues - how ranchers, farmers and wolves can live together - and discusses the mistaken, but widely held belief that wolves are responsible for the majority of livestock predation. Of all the livestock that die of natural causes on the open range including weather, birthing problems, sickness and predators, predation from wolves adds up to less than 2%.

The Hidden Life of Wolves allows readers to get to know the members of the Sawtooth pack through stories, but also a timeline of the wolf pack generations and breathtaking photography. Readers will fall in love with the wolves including Lakota, the Omega wolf and the lowest ranking member of the pack. Lakota, maintained a special and uncommonly close relationship with Kamots, the Alpha and pack leader who would often fend off the rest of the pack from Lakota when play got too rough.

Not only will these photos thrill readers, they will also remind them just how closely related dogs and wolves are; many of the postures, behaviors and expressions of the wolves are displayed by our own dogs.

“The wolves of the Sawtooth Pack gave us so much and wolves in general are so misunderstood,” said Jim Dutcher. “We decided to stop filming and give back to the wolves by starting an educational organization. We now have dedicated ourselves to creating awareness for wolves.”

Jim Dutcher is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer whose extraordinary camerawork has led audiences into places never before filmed: inside beaver lodges, down burrows to peek at wolf pups, and into the secret life of a mother mountain lion. His work includes the National Geographic special, A Rocky Mountain Beaver Pond, and ABC World of Discovery’s two highest-rated films, Cougar: Ghost of the Rockies and Wolf: Return of a Legend. Jamie Dutcher, Jim’s wife and co-producer, has worked in the animal hospital of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., bringing her knowledge of animal husbandry and medical care to film and enabling her to quickly gain access to the sensitive and secret inner lives of wolves.